General direction: Love, nurturing, protection and caring for your family and others. Build a loving home life. Enjoy children and provide for them. Loyalty, compassion, kindness, thoughtfulness.
Energy.
Symbol. Crab, symbolizes tenacity, attachments. Difficult to let go. Tenacious about going after your goals, nothing will stop you. Symbol of powerful forces moving under the surface.
Mentality. Introverted. Security is the main motivational force. Good in math. Excellent memory. Chat meaninglessly compensating for feelings of insecurity. Ego is subdued.
Physical appearance. Middle sized body, face full, slightly snub nose, fair complexion, long arms, long face and wide chest.
The lesson.
Personality.
Intelligent, gentle, extremely sensitive and changeable, romantic, and imaginative. Emotional and intuitive. Good listener. Sensitive to the moods and emotions of others. Sensitive to the phases of the Moon. Cranky at fool Moon. Like privacy, being at home. May spend a whole life searching for a perfect family and home. You want home that reminds you childhood-worm, comfortable, and inviting. Homebody, want everything familiar around you. Like to cook. Kitchen is the favorable place of your activity. Plenty of food at home. A little messy at home life. Very territorial, like to have your own place, your own things, etc. Social and like people. Dependable and responsible.
Like being married. Crave for stability in life and marriage. Have deep need for security. You need constant support and encouragement. Complex and fragile, want to be loved and approved. Loyal to those who make you feel secure. When you really care for somebody, nothing else matters. You don’t see any faults in the person you love. Will stay in bad relationships or unproductive jobs for long, hoping that things will improve by themselves. Attached to family and prefer to reside close to immediate family and friends.
Close and respectful to your mother and even allow her to interfere with your romantic relationships. Male Cancer might make his wife inferior to his mother. . You might unconsciously recreate mother-child relationships throughout their lives and sometimes you play the caring, giving “mother” figure to others.
Issues surrounding the family form the major life themes for you. Cancer will take care for an elderly and ill parent with dignity and compassion. You will sacrifice a lot for your children. Cancer father, if separated, become determined to remain close to children and provide support for them.
Shy, often timid, and moody. You react from emotion, not from reason. Can be directed through kindness, but if forced, you become immovable. Master of the art of passive resistance. Beneath your shy and modest appearance, you are a strong individual who wants and capable to succeed no matter what. Quiet insistent on doing things your way.
Collector. Like to plan special occasions like wedding or special celebrations and holidays that bring family together.
Wise with money. Cancer’s frugality may take form of miserliness.
Social, very talkative, honest, and unbending. When criticized, you may become defensive, shut down or withdraw altogether. It is difficult to hide your emotional reactions because most of your feelings register immediately on your face or in your expressive and sensitive eyes.
In relationships you are caring and nurturing. You are dependable and responsible.
You give unselfishly to anyone who needs you making them feel cared for and understood, but there is not much happiness in life for you. You have a difficult time trusting others. You are cautious about revealing of too much of yourself and you guard your secrets well. Very sensual. Females are old-fashioned, the special quality that makes men feel protective toward her. Affectionate, feminine. Males are very protective, constant and devoted companions.
You are possessive. If you love somebody, they will never again be entirely free. You try to stay in touch with friends, ex-lovers, former spouses, and business associates.
Cancer is “Money sign” and you have ability to attract wealth, intuitively sense public taste and opinions. You can be shrewd and canny in business. To you money is security, but no matter how much wealth you accumulate you accumulate, you never feel secure. On the surface you look calm and strong, but underneath you tend to feel insecure and inadequate. You often imaging the worst outcome to a scenario, never the best.
Sentimental. Music, a particular scent, a flower can jar your memory. You like to frame old photographs and keep old letters. Like to collect memories from the past and pore over them. You are also extraordinarily in sync with other people’s feelings. Fall in love easily and are a romantic day dreamer. Fear rejection, never comes directly. When you are close to someone, you believe you are supposed to help that person. Will care and protect those you love. Faithful. Very vulnerable, emotionally never forgive the betrayal.
You tend to absorb thoughts and feelings to the certain limit. You hold your feelings unconsciously, that is your defensive mode.
Sooner or later they all come out quite unexpectedly for you and others. It would be better for you to share your feelings, not hold them.
With difficult aspects you can be quick tempered, irritable, and dishonest. Can be controlling and jealous.
Professions. Good in occupations of a fluctuating nature, photography. CEO or chief financial officer, accounting, finance, investing. Managers, customer support. Professions dealing with food, shelter, or comfort to others. Chef, caterer, produce dealer, baker, or restaurateur, hotelier. You might do very well publishing a book of recipes or working on a food-oriented Web site. Obstetrician, nurse, midwife, a nutritionist or instructor for pregnant women. You would be an excellent nursery school or kindergarten teacher, or work successfully in the toy industry. With your love of history, you can work in antiques, as a museum curator or as a historian. Home designer, architect, real estate broker. Landscaping, a gardener. Boating industry. Career in the navy. Wine, coffee, tea industry. Actor and writers. Publicity or talent agent. Marketing.
Diseases. Tend to accumulate water. Sensitive stomach, problems with digestion. Eating disorders. Problems with breasts. Overweight in later years.